- 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
- 0337 - Eusebius of Caesaria Constantine the Great dies (b. 0272). Roman emperor.
- 0748 - Empress Genshō of Japan dies (b. 680).
- 1068 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan dies (b. 1025)
- 1176 - Murder attempt by the Hashshashin (Assassins) on Saladin near Aleppo.
1370 -
Início da construção da Bastilha (França)
1538 -
John Forrest dies martyred (b. 1471). English Franciscan friar.
1545 -
Portugal - Miranda do Douro é elevada a categoria de cidade e Diocese.
- 1694 - Daniel Gran was born (d. 1757). Austrian painter.
- 1809 - Second and last Day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon was repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
- 1813 - Richard Wagner was born (d. 1883). German composer. (Der Ring Des Nibelungen).
1823 -
Isabella Glyn Dallas was born (d. 1889). British Shakepearean actress.
1828 - Restauração da Carta Constitucional na ilha Terceira, após a dissolução das Cortes constitucionais, em Março, e a proclamação de D. Miguel como rei absoluto, em Abril. A Terceira irá tornar-se o centro da resistência contra o regime absolutista.
1842 - Farmers Lester Howe and Henry Wetsel discover
Howe Caverns, when they stumble upon a large gaping hole in the ground.
1844 -
Mary Cassatt was born in Alleghany (d. 14 Jun 1926). American impressionist painter and printmaker, (The Bath).
1849 - Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for "buoying boats over shoals" (No. 6,469). He was the first American president to receive a patent.
1851 - Tem início o período conhecido por Regeneração, com a formação do governo presidido pelo duque de Saldanha e tendo a participação de Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhães e de António Maria Fontes Pereira de Melo. Caracteriza-se por ser um período de paz política e progresso material.
1859 - Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 7 Jul 1930). Physician and writer ( Sherlock Holmes series).
1866 - Tomás Cipriano Ignacio María de Mosquera y Arboleda assume (pela 4º vez) a presidência da Colômbia
1868 -
Julius Plücker dies (b. 1801). German mathematician and physicist.
- 1871 - Portugal: Abrem as Conferências Democráticas, no Casino Lisbonense, com a discussão de "O Espírito das Conferências", de Antero de Quental.
1875 - Duque de Loulé dies. Portuguese politician.
1879 -
Alla Nazimova was born (d. 1945). Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter and producer
1882 - United States formally recognized Korea.
1891 -
Eddie Edwards was born (d. 1963). American jazz trombonist.
1894 -
Friedrich Pollock was born (d. 1970). German sociologist, economist and philosopher.
1899 - Portugal assina acordo comercial com os Estados Unidos
1903 -
Yves Rocard was born (d. 1992). French physicist.
- 1904 - Paul Viiding was born (d. 1962). Estonian poet.
- 1906 - The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opens in Athens.
1907 - Sir
Laurence Olivier was born (d. 11 Jul 1989). English Academy Award-winning actor: Hamlet [1948]; War Requiem, The Boys from Brazil, Brideshead Revisited, Carrie, The Jazz Singer, Peter the Great, Richard III, Spartacus, The Merchant of Venice, Marathon Man, Khartoum; Emmy Award-winning actor: The Moon and Sixpence [1960], A Long Day’s Journey into Night [1973], Love Among the Ruins [1975], Brideshead Revisited, King Lear [1984];
1907 -
Hergé was born (d. 1983). Comic book creator and cartoonist (Tin-Tin).
1910 -
Johnny Olson was born (d. 1985). Game show announcer.
1911 - Portugal: O Escudo torna-se a moeda oficial, em substituição do Real. O escudo será dividido em cem partes iguais, denominados centavos, correspondendo um centavo aos antigos dez réis.
1911 -
Anatol Rapoport was born (d. 2007). Russian-born mathematical psychologist and pianist.
1914 -
Sun Ra was born (d. 1993). American jazz musician.
1915 - Five trains collide in the
Quintinshill rail crash near
Gretna Green,
Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
1917 -
Daniel Nagrin was born. American modern dancer and choreographer.
1917 -
Georg Tintner was born (d. 1999). Austrian-born conductor.
1920 -
Thomas Gold was born (d. 2004). Austrian astrophysicist.
1922 -
Quinn Martin was born (d. 1987). American television producer.
- 1925 - Foi fundada a Sociedade de escritores e compositores teatrais portugueses.
1925 -
James King was born (d. 2005). American tenor
1926 - Eleine Leighton was born. Drummer: played with Billie Holiday
1927 -
George Andrew Olah was born. Hungarian-American chemist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work conducted in the early 1960s that isolated the positively charged, electron-deficient fragments of hydrocarbons known as carbocations (or carbonium ions).
1930 -
Kenny Ball was born. British trumpet player
1930 -
Harvey Milk was born (d. 1978). American politician, civil rights activist.
1934 -
Arne Harris was born (d. 2001). American television sports director.
1935 -
Ron Piché was born. Quebec baseball player.
1936 -
M. Scott Peck was born (d. 2005). American psychiatrist and writer.
1937 - Ciro Costa dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 18 Mar 1879). Brazilian poet ("Pai João", "Estelário", "Sob a Metralha" e "Terra Prometida").
- 1939 - Ernst Toller dies (b. 1893). German author.
1940 - Fernando Matos Silva was born. Portuguese film director.
1940 -
Bernard Shaw was born. American television journalist.
- 1942 - Calvin Simon was born. American musician (P Funk).
- 1943 - Betty Williams was born. Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1943 -
Gesine Schwan was born. German politician and science professor.
1946 -
George Best was born (d. 2005). Northern Irish footballer.
1946 -
Howard Kendall was born. English footballer and football manager
- 1947 - Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman of the U.S. signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
- 1950 - Alekos Alavanos was born. Greek politician.
- 1950 - Bernie Taupin was born. English songwriter.
1950 - Mahumud Celal Bayar assume a Presidencia da Turquia enquanto Adnan Menderes assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
1950 - Alfonso Quiñónez Molina dies. President of El Salvador (1923-1927).
1955 -
Dale Winton was born. UK radio DJ and television presenter.
1956 -
Al Corley was born. American actor and producer.
- 1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode.
- 1962 - Brian Pillman was born (d. 1997). American professional wrestler.
- 1963 - Assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis, who will die five days afterwards.
- 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
- 1964 - Ashley Renee was born. American fetish model.
- 1965 - Christopher Stone dies (b. 1882). First disc jockey in the United Kingdom.
- 1966 - Kenny Hickey was born. American guitarist (Type O Negative).
- 1966 - Jose Mesa was born. Dominican baseball player.
1967 - The
L'Innovation department store in the centre of
Brussels,
Belgium burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
- 1970 - Pedro Diniz was born. Brazilian Formula 1 Driver.
- 1971 - Manuel Ortiz was born. Mexican professional wrestler.
- 1972 - Ceylon adopts a new constitution, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1974 - O governo português reconhece como interlocutores, nas conversações a realizar sobre a descolonização, o PAIGC, o MPLA, a UNITA, a FNLA e a FRELIMO.
1974 -
John Bale was born. American baseball player
- 1974 - A. J. Langer was born. American actress
- 1975 - Tracy Brookshaw was born. American professional wrestler and valet.
1975 -
Lefty Grove dies (b. 1900). American baseball player.
1977 -
Dre Bly was born. American football player.
- 1978 - Ginnifer Goodwin was born. American actress
1978 -
Katie Price (Jordan) was born. English model and media personality.
1979 -
Maggie Q was born. American actress
1980 -
Chad Tracy was born. American baseball player
1980 -
Rhett Fisher was born. Actor/musician (lead singer for Manic Mind)
1983 -
John Hopkins was born. Anglo-American motorcycling racer
1983 -
Albert Claude dies (b. 24 Aug 1898). Belgian-American cytologist who developed the principal methods of separating and analyzing components of the living cell. For this work, on which modern cell biology is partly based, Claude, his student George Palade, and Christian de Duve shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974.
1984 -
Joe Lauzon was born. American Mixed-Martial Arts fighter.
1986 - Invest, the first Portuguese investment fund is launched.
1995 - Bangladesh Shahityacharcha Kendro established.
1996 - A Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores entrega o Prémio de Carreira ao escritor David Mourão-Ferreira.
1997 - The US Postal Service released a Bugs Bunny commemorative stamp, the first animated character on a US stamp.
1997 -
Alfred Hershey dies (b. 4 Dec 1908). American
biologist who, along with Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969.
1998 - Na
Irlanda do Norte, um acordo de paz é aprovado por católicos e protestantes.
1998 - Expo 98: Em Lisboa, abriu ao público, em 1998, a última
exposição mundial do século. In Portugal just 12,000 people visited the Expo by midday on its first day. Organizers had predicted an average daily attendance of 140,000.
1998 - José Cayolla dies. Portuguese essayst.
2000 - John Gielgud dies. British actor.
2001 - It was reported that researchers had identified a gene linked to Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disorder.
2002 - Pope John Paul (82) arrived in Azerbaijan for a 2-day visit before continuing on to Bulgaria. He hope to improve relations with the Muslim and Christian Orthodox believers.
- 2003 - Prisão preventiva de Paulo Pedroso, no âmbito do processo Casa Pia.
- 2003 - Ousmane Zongo dies. Burkinabé shooting victim
- 2004 - A Palma de Ouro do Festival de Cannes é atribuída ao documentário de Michael Moore "Farenheit 9/11".
2004 - The
U.S. town of
Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful
F4 tornado which broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also killed one.
- 2004 - Manmohan Singh assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Índia.
2004 - The ship car carrier MV Hyundai, carrying 4,000 cars, sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Kaminesan just south of Singapore.
2005 - Benfica football team managed by Tapattoni wins Portuguese Championship in after 11 years without getting it. / Benfica retoma o título de campeão nacional de futebol, depois de 11 temporadas.
- 2005 - Charilaos Florakis dies (b. 1914). Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece.
- 2005 - Julia Randall dies (b. 1924). American poet.
- 2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft dies (b. 1914). American voice actor and singer.
- 2006 - José Agostinho Baptista vence o Grande Prémio de Poesia da APE, com a obra "Esta voz é quase o vento".
2006 -
Lee Jong-wook dies (b. 1945). Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation.
- National Heroes Day in Sri Lanka.
Municipal holyday in Leiria (Portugal) / Feriado Municipal da cidade de
Leiria (
Portugal)
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